Abdul Ali Mazari

Abdul Ali Mazari (1947-March 1995) was a Hazara general of the Northern Alliance during the Afghan Civil War.

Biography
Mazari was a Hazara from Balkh in Afghanistan, and fought in the Soviet-Afghan War as a Mujahideen commander in the 1980s. In the 1990s he fought in the Afghan Civil War as a Northern Alliance general, fighting for the rights of the Hazaras.

In 1995, while meeting with the Taliban to discuss peace terms, he was killed by the Taliban and thrown out of a helicopter.